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“So now, as the U.S. and its allies work to economically isolate Iran, as asecond aircraft carrier heads to the Persian Gulf, as coalition forces arrestIranian officials suspected of stirring violence in Iraq, what is Russia’sresponse? Last week, Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov confirmed thatMoscow had sold air defense missiles to Iran. Yes, that’s right. Russia isselling weapons to Iran. It’s selling weapons to a state that is a leadingsponsor of terrorism, whose president has vowed to wipe Israel off the map. Itis selling these weapons even though the UN has been warning and cajoling andthreatening Iran to stop its nuclear program for years. How did Ivanov justifythe sale? Simple. It was all part of a contract signed in December 2005.Translation: Business is business, and to hell with the rest of the world. TheRussians insisted that the sale doesn’t violate any international agreements.And that the missiles are short-range and purely defensive. But let’s see. Whatmight Iran be defending? Its illegal uranium-enrichment sites? Other nuclearfacilities where it is likely to be developing the expertise to build a bomb?And whose forces would be the likely targets of those missiles? The Russians,like the Chinese, issue reassuring pronouncements about opposing Iran’s nuclearmarch. The Chinese recently called on the Iranians to give a ‘serious response’to the UN resolution. Yes, harumph, harumph. Serious!... Iran poses a gravenuclear threat. Russia seems intent on giving it cover.” —Chicago Tribune

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